The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.
BENJAMIN E. MAYSThe circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.
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Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.
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The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream…It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is sin.
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Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done.
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The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not in you living above your means, but below your capacity. It’s not failure but aiming too low, that is life’s greatest tragedy.
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Whatever you do,strive to do it so well that no man living and no man dead and no man yet to be born could do it any better.
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Failure isn’t in not reaching your goal but in having no goal to reach.
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If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.
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You have the ability, now apply yourself.
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I believe everyone is born into the world to do something unique and distinctive.
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For nearly a century, the South made itself believe that Negroes and white people were really communicating. So convinced of this were the white Southerners that they almost made the nation believe that they, and only they, knew the mind of the Southern Negro.
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In this perilous world, if a black boy wanted to live a halfway normal life and die a natural death he had to learn early the art of how to get along with white folks.
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Many well-meaning intelligent people have argued since the May 17, 1954, decision of the United States Supreme Court outlawing segregation in the public schools that communication between the races has broken down.
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Whatever you do, do it so well that people looking on will feel that the task was reserved especially for you by God Himself.
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[H]owever hard the road, however difficult today, tomorrow things will be better. Tomorrow may not be better, but we must believe that it will be.
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The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach
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